+ Visit NASA.gov + Advanced Search   + About the Server   + Animation List   + How to Use the Server Previous Animation Next Animation Tour of the Plasmapause - April 2001 The near-Earth space environment is filled with plasma formed when the sun's ultraviolet rays electrify the upper parts of the Earth's atmosphere. This region is called the plasmasphere and its outer boundary is called the plasmapause. Here we view the plasmasphere in a static state as the observer takes a slow polar-orbiting tour of the region.    Movie of orbiting tour of a static plasmasphere. Duration: 6.0 seconds Available formats:   720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   5 MB   320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   1 MB   640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   4 MB   720x480 (29.97 fps) Frames (Plasmatourdata)   320x213     JPEG         38 KB   640x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-4   5 MB How to play our movies    North polar view of plasmapause. Available formats:   2560 x 1920     TIFF 2 MB   320 x 240         PNG 58 KB    Equatorial view of the plasmapause. Available formats:   2560 x 1920     TIFF 1 MB   320 x 240         PNG 55 KB   160 x 80           PNG 15 KB   80 x 40             PNG   5 KB    South polar view of the plasmapause. Available formats:   2560 x 1920     TIFF 1 MB   320 x 240         PNG 56 KB Animation Number: 3315 Animator: Tom Bridgman (Lead) Studio: SVS Completed: 2005-11-18 Scientist: Jerald Goldstein (SwRI) Instrument: IMAGE/EUV Data Collected: 2001/04/11T00:24:00Z Series: Space Weather Cold Fronts Keywords: SVS >> Plasmasphere SVS >> Plasmapause SVS >> Space Weather More Information on this topic available at: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/cold_front_feature.html Science paper: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 110, A09S31, doi:10.1029/2004JA010928, 2005     Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Back to Top + Privacy Policy and Important Notices + Reproduction Guidelines NASA Official: SVS Contact: Curator: